Jonathan Omer Mizrahi

Black Milk | OPEN FIELDS - Art and Agriculture

30.09.2023

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Date

30.09.2023

Time

3pm - 7pm

Location

Art in Public Space

Meeting point

Burg Rothenfels, Bromach 1, 8832 Oberwölz

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Event

Opening of the project Black Milk by Jonathan Omer Mizrahi in Oberwölz, in the context of OPEN FIELDS - Art and Agriculture.

OPEN FIELDS - Art and Agriculture

With the project OPEN FIELDS the Institute for Art in Public Space Styria combines the realms of art and agriculture. It includes 12 sub-projects by various international artists and art collectives and just as many Styrian farms.

Jonathan Omer Mizrahi

Black Milk

For his project Schwarze Milch / Black Milk, the Israeli filmmaker and artist Jonathan Omer Mizrahi takes the perspective of an outsider in the rural region around Christine Kobald’s farm in St. Peter am Kammersberg. The Styrian writer Peter Rosegger (1843–1918) noted in his texts changes in rural life, such as the disappearance of land (culture) and tradition. Based on Rosegger’s descriptions, Mizrahi does“fieldwork” and talks to local residents about the themes of disappearance, tradition and loss. From these conversations, in close cooperation with the herbal teacher and farmer Kobald and other locals, he developed a docu-fictional, multi-channel video. It touches on topics such as dairy farming and witches, combining contemporary personal experiences with folkloric, anti-patriarchal imagery. This creates a non-linear, deliberately flawed and lively history.